Like a white dwarf flaring out, NYC's Coptic Light (named after a Morton Feldman piece) emitted a single full length before disbanding earlier in 2006, a bruising eponymous album containing three epic, hyper-caffinated instrumentals. These jams build immense hyper-speed math-rock guitar figures out of skilled improvisation, which then swarm together into vast, meditative powerblasts of tense, jazzy post-rock rhythms and pummeling, time-signature shifting drumming, moody, erratic guitar lines, and an overall visceral intensity that feels lifted straight out of Hardcore. The three super-lengthy, 10+ minute jams on this album are infinitely technical bursts of heavy improv with dark overtones that intersects heavy math rock, bombastic prog, brain melting jazz fusion, sheets of textural ambience, and apocalyptic visions of decaying cityscapes...if you're into technical, shreddy rock like Battles and Don Caballero, you'll definitely want to explore Coptic Light. Actually, listening to Coptic Light also makes me think of a more streamlined, less tripped out and incendiary Psychic Paramount as well. And the lineup is something of a math-rock/hardcore dream team: Drummer Kevin Shea played with Storm & Stress, guitarist Jon Fine did time with both Bitch Magnet and Don Caballero, and bassist Jeff Winterberg was in the seminal chaotic hardcore outfit Antioch Arrow. An amazing debut, too bad these guys had to call it quits.